Astrophotographer Caught a Meteor Striking the Moon During the Eclipse

For this particular lunareclipse, as rare as it already was, Madiedo and his team doubled the number of telescopes observing the moon from four to eight. This weekend's lunar eclipse, the Super Blood Wolf Moonwas visible to a large portion of the population, and many, many cameras were trained on the Moon.

"The impact took place during the totality phase of the lunar eclipse", Madiedo writes. This 24-second video of the impact was released by Jose Maria Madiedo at the University of Huelva in Spain. The telescopes used by MIDAS have high-sensitivity video cameras that are used to continuously record events during observations.

"I am really happy, because I think that the effort was rewarded", he said. So, we usually monitor the Moon about five days after the New Moon, and around five days before the New Moon. Attached to his tweet was a YouTube link displaying the impact on the top-left half of the moon.

As for the Blood Moon part, the folks at Earthsky.org say, "A full moon almost always appears coppery red during a total lunar eclipse". In this case, MIDAS scored a home run, and it was the first time the system was able to spot an impact during a total lunar eclipse. "I did not want to miss any potential impact event", he explained in an email.

"When the automatic detection software notified me of a bright flash, I jumped out of my chair", Madiedo told Gizmodo. "It was a very exciting moment because I knew such a thing had never been recorded before".

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